Zooming along over Caribbean waters at sunrise. I am not a morning person and my choice and line of work means early mornings. But it’s moments like this one, flying along, the sky giving its all, the reflections and that wild spray that I feel especially thankful to have found myself here on this rich archipelago and the fact that it has become home to me.
This gives me such a feeling of gratitude and love for the fact that here is where I am in life and it’s where I want to stay. I feel thankful to the locals for putting up with us, jeje, and to this land for supporting us and visitors to the archipelago.
I want to know if they’re here years from now, the forest, the reefs, the mangroves, they are suffering horribly from human impact and lack of regulation and can they adapt fast enough and awareness raised by education so won’t all be lost. Together we can spread the word about how important these systems are and how crucial it is to protect them.
They’re slipping away and much of the underwater world is suffering yearly losses of corals, of seagrass beds the systems are impacted by climate change under our noses and no one knows about it, or even the vital resources and ecosystem services these ecosystems provide, folks don’t know about any of it because we need longterm trends to help us understand what’s changing and the change is exponential to where we are seeing ecosystem collapse.
Now who wants that? Gosh I always talk about the canaries in the coal mine are screaming (especially the migratory birds), well the fishes and these essential underwater ecosystems are screaming too, and no one can hear.
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